The day when it was mandatory to march with the Soviets
- The celebration of oppressive communist power, May 1 was held every year
- Most people took part in the festive parade as the absence did not look good at either the party or the workplace
- The parody of the official television program, the « marchers », was also prepared
The older generation is well remembered and younger can look back on the internet as Red flags, clichés, molinos, Marx, Engels, Lenin portraits were filled with portraits every May 1. Labor movement space of the speakers and the commentator for decades echoed for decades greeted the brigades of marching plantsproduction power, a excellent workers. For some reason, we were not bored, even the one who didn’t want to – though the party nor the workplace had a good look at the stay of the party and the unloading fair, Vurstliv.
May 1 was really a holiday. The holidays are highlighted by a series of events that are unusual from the gray, so that they are repeated only on that particular day. No one is questioning, for example, that why poppy bejgli gets on the table at Christmaswhy candle cake goes to the birthday. The same thing became self -evident May 1 Carnival-like parade With colorful balloons, red flags, symbols of the oppressive system.
Children’s Day in the Kádár era: Cotton sugar cheerful propaganda, when the zoo, the cheerful park and the circus in the City Park were crowded-photos
He also had an unofficial timetable for this day. Even then, the smallest kids were at the earliest. There was no need to go to kindergarten, school, and while the parents woke up, there was a show on TV at dawn, and the Soviet parade was mandatory at home: « Let’s switch the red space! »
A few hours later, in Budapest, the colorful production installations on trucks were rolled in today’s fifty -sixth, and the laborers, officials, children, ball flags in their hands were massacred at a solid pace, and from the grandson rebellious crowd knocked down the statue of Stalin – the stagnant party state leaders waved to the subjects. János Kádár nostalgic from the old May 1st in a smiling interview to a news reporter with servile courtesy.
Grill sausage has become a sausage of May 1st: this is what the better quality meat is now
THE to religious procession At the end of the parade, the crowd scattered in Budapest in the City Park and in other cities in the nearby larger park. As part of the communist ceremony, he was offered on the paper tray cooked sausage with mustard, breadas a massboror beer and refreshing served on the red ritual. Finally, families with children and love couples in the zoo -free zoo, in amusement parkin the countryside, they ended up at the village farewell, where everyone could forget the boredom of the mandatory party state ceremony.
